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ἀμφιφορεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: amphiphoreus

Principal Part: ἀμφιφορεύς

Structure: ἀμφιφορευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: φέρω

Sense

  1. a large jar with two handles

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἀπολλόδωρος δ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος ἐν τῷ περὶ τοῦ Κρατῆρος ῥησειδίῳ ὁ τὴν κατὰ τὸν πυθμένα μὴ δυναμένην τίθεσθαι καὶ ἐρείδεσθαι, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ στόμα, τινὲς δέ φασιν, ὃν τρόπον ἀμφιφορεὺς λέγεται ὁ ἀμφοτέρωθεν κατὰ τὰ ὦτα δυνάμενος φέρεσθαι, οὕτως καὶ τὴν ἀμφίθετον φιάλην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 103 1:3)
  • ὣς δὲ καὶ ὀστέα νῶϊν ὁμὴ σορὸς ἀμφικαλύπτοι χρύσεος ἀμφιφορεύς, τόν τοι πόρε πότνια μήτηρ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 7:19)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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